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McCain should not try to run for President

If you want to be president in the information age, it’s probably not a good idea to get the blogosphere on your bad side. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2000, apparently has not grasped that basic rule of thumb yet.

McCain is a Liberal and all of my liberal friends (I don’t understand them) think he would be a good Republican President. They think this because he is a liberal.

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December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the
wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge
soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So
romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering
every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely
place in the whole World? Moving here was the best idea I’ve ever had.
Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our
driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and
covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again.
What a perfect life.

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment.
My neighbor tells me not to worry, we’ll definitely have a white Christmas. No
snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we’ll have so much snow by the
end of winter, that I’ll never want to see snow again. l don’t think that’s possible.
Bob is such a nice man I’m glad he’s our neighbor.

December 14: Snow lovely snow! 8″ last night. The temperature dropped to -20.
The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I
warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The
snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. l didn’t realize
I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I’ll certainly get back in shape
this way. I wish l wouldn’t huff and puff so.

December 15: 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4×4 Blazer. Bought
snow tires for the wife’s car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife
wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that’s silly. We aren’t
in Alaska, after all.

December 16: Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway
putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, Which I think
was very cruel.

December 17: Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere.
Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm.
Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should’ve
bought a wood stove, but won’t admit it to her. God I hate it when she’s right. I
can’t believe I’m freezing to death in my own living room.

December 20: Electricity’s back on, but had another 14″ of the damn stuff last
night. More shoveling. Took all day. Goddamn snowplow came by twice. Tried
to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they’re too busy playing hockey. I
think they’re lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a
snow blower and they’re out. Might have another shipment in March. I think
they’re lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me.
I think he’s lying.

December 22: Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of
the white shit fell today, and it’s so cold it probably won’t melt till August. Took
me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to piss. By
the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel.
Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he
says he’s too busy. I think the asshole is lying.

December 23: Only 2″ of snow today. And it warmed up to 0o. The wife wanted
me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she nuts!!! Why
didn’t she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she’s
lying.

December 24: 6″. Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel.
Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a bitch who drives
that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his balls. I know he hides
around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down
the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I’ve just been!
Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our
presents, but I was busy watching for the goddamn snowplow.

December 25: Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the !=3D@x@!x!x1slop
tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God I hate the
snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him
over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s
an idiot. If I have to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” one more time, I’m going to
kill her.

December 26: Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all
HER idea. She’s really getting on my nerves.

December 27: Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze.

December 28: Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in. THE BITCH is driving
me crazy!!!!!

December 29: 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could
cave in. That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30: Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million
dollars. The wife went home to her mother. 9″ predicted.

December 31: Set fire to what’s left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8: I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me.
Why am I tied to the bed?

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Things I would like for Christmas

1. It’s not a dream.  It’s a Mirage. 
2. Time with Friends
3. 

Things I don’t want for Christmas:

1. Empty keg of beer
2. My old job back
3. Any of my ex’s back

TAG!

Who to Tag?  How about

I wil add tehse later

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For My Democrat Friends:
“Please accept, with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that Amer ica is necessarily greater than any other country, nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

For My Republican Friends:
“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!”

Best Regards,

Michael

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A speech by RADM J. Stark, USN, 
President of the Naval War College 
The first reason I like Marines: They set high standards for themselves and those around them, and will accept nothing less. I like the way Marines march. I like the way Marines do their basic training whether it’s Quantico, San Diego, or Parris Island. I like the idea that Marines cultivate an ethos conductive of producing hard people in a soft age.

I like the fact that Marines stay in shape.

I like the fact that the Marines only have one boss - The Commandant. And I like the directness of the Commandant.

I like the fact that Marines are stubborn.

I like the way Marines obey orders.

I like the way Marines make the most of the press.

I like the wholehearted professionalism of the Marines.

It occurred to me that the services could be characterized by different breeds of dogs.

The Air Force reminded me of a French Poodle. The poodle always looks perfect…sometimes a bit pampered and always travels first class. But don’t ever forget that the poodle was bred as a hunting dog and in a fight it’s very dangerous.

The Army is kind of like a St. Bernard. It’s big and heavy and sometimes seems a bit clumsy. But it’s very powerful and has lots of stamina. So you want it for the long haul.

The Navy, God bless us, is a Golden Retriever. They’re good natured and great around the house. The kids love ‘em. Sometimes their hair is a bit long….they go wandering off for long periods of time, and they love water.

Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean or skinny and mean. They’re aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They’ve got really short hair and they always go for the throat.

That sounds like a Marine to me!

So what I really like about Marines is that first to fight isn’t just a motto, it’s a way of life.

From the day they were formed at Tun Tavern 200 plus years ago, Marines have distinguished themselves on battlefields around the world. From the fighting tops of the Bonhomme Richard, to the sands of Barbary Coast, from the swamps of New Orleans to the halls of Montezuma, from Belleau Wood, to the Argonne Forest, to Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima, and Okinawa and Inchon, and Chosin Reservoir and Hue City and Quang Tri and Dong Ha, and Beirut, and Grenada, and Panama, and Somalia and Bosnia and a thousand unnamed battlefields in godforsaken parts of the globe. Marines have distinguished themselves by their bravery, and stubbornness and aggressive spirit, and sacrifice, and love of country, and loyalty to one another.

They’ve done it for you and me, and this country we all love so dearly. They asked for nothing more than the honor of being a United States Marine.

That’s why I like Marines!

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The Swift Raids prove the Criminals wet-backs are hurting Americans

GREELEY - The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.

And The Rocky Mountain News Still won’t call the wetbacks what they are: illegal criminals who are stealing American Identities (yes, they are posing as you and me).

In 2002 Swift & Co laid off a large portion of it American workforce because they were making on average $20.00 per hour. These Americans might get lucky to get $12.00 per hour now because of this criminal activity.

The Executive staff of this Swift & Co should be SHOT in the head with a 22 cal bullet because they are breaking the law and hurting Americans in the process. They are not allowed to use the Ken Lay excuse of sleeping at the helm.

Deport the criminal Mexicans and shoot the American executives that promote this shit..

Then Fire any representative that supports Mexicans instead of Americans. 

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It is snowing in Colorado and we already have 8-9 inches with 16-24 inch drifts, the wind is blowing hard too.

Here Sgt Pepper in the snow chasing Rabbits that I didn’t see .

I hear that he caught one yesterday in the barn and played with it like a rag doll….

This is one of my projects with Dad. he rode this in the fields of Nebraska (a good place to be from, far away from) when he was a kid in the 50’s.

Stay warm today.

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I’m weeding through one of many emails I get about the Marines. Here’s another article about how those who really have determination are quite successful at getting what they want.

NORTH PORT — Heidi Lotthammer doesn’t want any of the credit.

The North Port woman worked recently to gather nearly $27,000 in donations from Wal-Mart for her son’s Marine unit currently serving in Iraq.

“I don’t want the glory,” Lotthammer said. “I give praise to God for Wal-Mart.”

She began her quest for donations several months ago. She was inspired by her son, Mark, a Marine corporal who graduated from Port Charlotte High School in 1996.

Mark is serving his second tour in Iraq with Lima Co., 3rd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. His unit is currently stationed at Camp Habbaniyah in the Al Anbar Province, about an hour west of Baghdad. It’s known as the Triangle of Death.

Don’t ever say Wal Mart doesn’t do good things.

Heidi went to all her family and friends for donations, as well as to Publix and Wal-Mart. Initially, the two companies each gave her a $50 gift card. She kept asking, but about six weeks passed and she heard nothing.

[…]
“Then the mom from Philadelphia called me while I was out shopping, and left a message saying Wal-Mart was trying to get in touch with me, but they only had my first name,” said Heidi.

She spoke with a Wal-Mart representative who said he understood she was looking for a large donation for the 3/2 Marines.

“He listened very carefully and didn’t interrupt once,” she said. “He told me, ‘I can really see you are a caring woman who wants to help.’ And he started to say ‘How about 14 or 15?’ I thought he was going to say $1,400 or $1,500, because I just wanted to buy some folding camp chairs for the boys so they wouldn’t have to sit on the ground — and then he said $14,000 to $15,000, and I just started crying.”

I would have cried too.

Although Heidi wasn’t able to go, more than 150 Marine moms got together in Philadelphia and packed boxes upon boxes with “stockings, Dr. Scholl’s items, hand-held video games” and baked goods for the 1,130 Marines in the unit.

They also sent numerous Christmas trees and ornaments, enough so every one of the unit’s outposts would have a tree to decorate.

Heidi is a great woman and we should thank her for all she has done with this. To care enough about ALL the Marines- not just her own son- in this unit- is typical of Marine Moms. They are also among the few and the proud.

Again: Semper Fi

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Last week I posted about the fund raising going on down in Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point- for the Wounded Warriors Barracks…they are reporting how great the response has been.

A Craven County fund-raising drive for Wounded Warrior holiday travel raised unexpected amounts, holiday spirit and maybe a roof for a disabled soldier.

“I have seen the best of America in the last week,” said Steve Tyson, the Craven County commissioner who helped the Military Order of Purple Heart campaign last week after hearing an appeal from state coordinator Jim Casti of Newport.

“I saw Americans with that ‘What can I do to help. Let’s get it done’ attitude,” Tyson said. “It’s been really quite phenomenal. People around here love their Marines.”

[…]
A hat was passed specifically to help Army Sgt. Eric Edmundson, for whom Homes for Our Troops broke ground for a home in Fairfield Harbor last week.

Tyson said he has commitments from area businesses to continue raising money for the Edmundson home.

Mailed donations and funds raised through the reception totaled $40,707, which will go toward getting 57 Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune wounded veterans home for Christmas.

Tyson said a lot of the donors were local, but checks came from places such as Oklahoma, New York and Boston.

Heh…from Boston?? They got several checks from New Hampshire as well!! Americans love their Marines, and when we know help is needed, we will do whatever we can to assist. This effort started out locally but it was posted on a couple blogs which I know helped bring in national attention. I wrote to Mr. Tyson and Mr. Casti telling them to send email alerts to people who could help them spread the word here.

Speaking of Maxwell Barracks, another little article about how giving people can be when they know of needs:

Only days after returning from deployment, members of BLT 1/8 met at Spanky’s Sports Bar and Grill. But the biggest presence in the room was the memory of Cpl. Gary Koehler, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Haditha on Nov. 1. He was 21 years old and left behind a wife, Hillary.

The members of Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, came to Spanky’s on Dec. 7 to witness the dedication of an electric wheelchair, donated in Koehler’s memory to the Wounded Warriors barracks on Camp Lejeune. The wheelchair has Koehler’s name and date of death embroidered on the back of the headrest.

“This means as long as a wounded warrior needs and uses this chair, then Cpl. Koehler will always be with us, and supporting his brothers,” said J.C. Hardee, a retired Marine colonel.

He and retired Marines Mark Schallow and Spanky Feest have been behind several fund-raisers to benefit the Wounded Warriors program; other gifts include a poker table.

But this state-of-the-art wheelchair, dressed with camouflage rims, is a personal tribute, too.

[…]
Marines and sailors from the Wounded Warriors barracks, which now houses more than 60 on Lejeune, were grateful for the gesture.

“This shows how much the American public cares,” said Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell, OIC of the barracks. “We’re America’s team right now.”

And that team takes care of their own.

I’ve been to Maxwell Barracks, met Tim Maxwell and over 45 of the Marines who reside here. They’re all heroes. They got their wounds fighting in Iraq- and they deserve a lot of respect. And support. A similar barracks will be opening on the West Coast soon at Camp Pendleton-based on the successful model of this project. I wish them all nothing but the best with these efforts.

Semper Fi

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Playing with Google maps today, I thought I would post a picture of where I live in Colorado.

I now live on in the center of this picture.

Pretty cool huh

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by the press

Next time you have a Chiquita banana …

Think about Cornélio, the 16-year-old boy from rural Guatemala, whose mother was taken away by immigration agents last Tuesday in Greeley, leaving him alone to fend for himself right before Christmas. (Click here to read my column on him: http://www.denverpost.com/rodriguez)

Why? to pull on your heart for soemone that is in America Illaglay? not a chance.

I guess they should fix their govenrment and companies. and stay in their own countries until it is time

As far as the American Companies that hire these criminals. they should be fined so hard that they go out of business. and the people that did the hireing should go to jail. Yes punish the people that knowingly break American laws. and deport all the illagals.

Enforcment first is the only way to stop the flow.

Once again the liberal media want’s to destroy America.

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Reading this pile of crap on cBS 60 Minutes ‘of lies’ II, we see the personal side of what the liberal medial to the military did because of a  group of weak thugs (kind of like Jayson Blair of the NYT). The liberal media touted that all American Military were like the few idiots that were at Abu-Graib. I contest that every reporter (other than fox news) is a liberal activist against our American Military or anything Republican/Libertarian.

There was one MP that knew and started the write steps when he found out about it.

“You knew there would be some kind of investigation?” Cooper asks.
“I knew these people were going to prison,” Darby says. And in his opinion, they deserved to go to prison.
Darby copied Graner’s pictures onto a disc and put it in an envelope with an anonymous letter. He took the envelope to the Criminal Investigations Division — CID — and told them it had been left on his desk.
“I said, ‘This was left in my office. I was told to give it to the CID.’ I said, ‘Have a nice day, Sir,’ and turned around and walked away,” Darby recalls.
Darby hoped that would be the end of it but within less than 45 minutes, the investigator came to him.

But the liberal media didn’t want to tell anyone. To them it was ‘Bush’s Fault’ starting with the fact that we were there.

Rummy should not have said his name before the issue was resolved.

Weeks later, the guards under investigation were removed and Darby could finally sleep without a gun under his pillow. The suspects were gone, and his name was still secret.
Several months later, 60 Minutes II broke the story of the pictures. An article in “The New Yorker” revealed Darby’s role, though no one in Iraq seemed to notice.
But then, while Darby was having lunch in the mess hall watching Donald Rumsfeld testify before Congress about Abu Ghraib, the defense secretary said, “There are many who did their duty professionally and we should mention that as well. First, Specialist Joseph Darby, who alerted appropriate authorities that abuses were occurring.”
“I just stopped in mid bite. I was eating and I just stopped. What the hell just happened? Now the anxiety came back. Now, I’m worried,” Darby remembers. “Everyone in the unit knew within four hours.”
What was the reaction?

The Evil Guards

“It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. You know, I got support,” Darby says.

Wait, why would the evil Americans give him any support?

oh, maybe they were not all evil as the liberal media wants everyone to believe.

But don’t forget the communist Senator ‘Capt’n Chappaquiddick’ Kennedy

While he was a villain to his neighbors, he was a hero to people he had never met, including Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, who gave him a “Profile In Courage” award in honor of President John F. Kennedy.

Was this a political opportunity for the communist family?

It was really the liberal media that abused the whole unit, not to mention the whole military. The media presented this as a military wide Americans are evil and it is Bush’s war so they wouldn’t be there if Bush didn’t want another war….

Specialist Joseph Darby was correct in bringing this issue to the chain of command. The chain of command started down the right path. But in reality there were some people that were and did wrong things. It was not the typical of any of the MP’s to do these things that these few ignorant people did.

“I want people to understand that I went to Iraq with 200 of the finest servicemen I’ve ever seen in my life. But those 200, for the rest of their lives, their unit is gonna carry a bad name because of what seven individuals did,” Darby says.
Maj. Gen. George Fay, who investigated Abu Ghraib, told 60 Minutes that Graner and his gang took the vast majority of the pictures for their own sadistic amusement, but that in a few cases, military intelligence officers had asked the gang to soften up a prisoner. The general called Darby “courageous” for blowing the whistle.

Once again it was the liberal media with a political goal and a personal hatred anything American Strength.

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Looking out for each other. Taking care of their own. That’s the Marine Corps way. At Camp Lejeune one man is on a mission that deserves some attention here. Currently there are almost 60 young injured and recovering Marines living at the Wounded Warrior Barracks (aka Maxwell Barracks). An effort is underway to raise enough money to send these guys home for the holidays.

Retired Marine Capt. Jim Casti thinks it makes simple sense for those who traveled across the globe and were injured fighting for their country to be able to travel home for Christmas.

But holiday travel money isn’t a military perk, and many of the 57 military personnel from Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune at the Wounded Warriors Barracks aboard Camp Lejeune base can’t afford the trip.

A member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart himself, Casti, a Vietnam War veteran from Newport, is heading the national group’s North Carolina effort to raise money to make sure that those injured in the service of their country get home for the holidays.

It isn’t a holiday when you’re holed up in some rehab center. It’s quite depressing to be at one of these places on such an important holiday as Christmas.

Money is coming in quickly from far away and close to home, said Tyson, who started an e-mail campaign for the fund-raising reception.

He said the quick response from people has left him awed.

A $5,000 check from the New York City Police Benevolent Association is among the contributions Casti has received thus far.

Tyson said he received two checks for $1,000 each, several for $500, and a $1,000 pledge for help with the reception, leading him to estimate as much as $20,000 will be raised for the effort.

He said 20 more checks came in Friday, and 135 people have committed so far to attend tonight’s event, which costs $50 per person.

When people know there’s a need they will help when they can. It’s the American way. If you want to help, here’s the info:

Send checks to:
Mr.Tyson or Mr. Casti at

Wounded Warriors Leave Fund
P.O. Box 636,
Newport, N.C. 28570.

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‘Twas the month before Christmas when all through our land,
Not a person was praying nor taking a stand.

Why the Diversity Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.

The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.
We’ll hurt people’s feelings, the teachers would say
So December 25th is just a ” Holiday .”

Greedy shoppers were ready with cash, checks, and credit
Knocking folks to the floor, just to be first to get it!
CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod
Something was changing, something quite odd!

Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa
In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.
As Targets were hanging their trees upside down
At Lowe’s the word Christmas - was not to be found.

At K-Mart and Staples and Penney’s and Sears
You won’t hear the word Christmas; it won’t touch your ears.
Inclusive and sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty
Are words that they use to intimidate me.

Now Murtha, Now Durbin, Now Biden, Wolf Blitzen
On Boxer, on Schumer,
on Kerry, on Clinton !
At the top of the Congress, there arose such a clatter
To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away faith
Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace.
The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded
The reason for the season, stopped before it started.

So as you celebrate “Winter Break” under your “Dream Tree”
Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.
Choose your words rightly, choose well what you say
Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, not Happy Holiday!!

Merry Christmas to all, and all who are offended, you have a right to be.

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“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), US athlete
(On December 10, 1901, The first Nobel Prizes were awarded)

Jesse Ownes was right, the Nobel Prizes are a waist of time.

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